قلقانجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

قلقان (kalkan, “shield”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, “occupational suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɫkand͡ʒɯ/

Noun

قلقانجی • (kalkancı)

1. shield-maker or shield-seller

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلقانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3750
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قلقانجی”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 707